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brought to you by private investment financial development on the

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download Which of the following encourage private investment in latin

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america and hear the potential answers All right well every

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so often foreign policy makers decide to trade in their

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military weapons for one's of a more of a financial

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nature Let's see which of these programmes was designed to

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cash in on the winds of diplomatic change Was private

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investment in latin american courage by the good neighbor policy

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Well fdr is good Neighbor policy was a promise to

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our latin american friends that we've stopped the whole military

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intervention thing though increased investment opportunities were a part of

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this Hey pal we're cool right That whole effort Well

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they weren't The central piece of the foreign policy puzzle

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could be the truman doctrine had encouraged private investment in

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latin america Well the truman doctrine was less about investing

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in latin america and maura about investing in anything that

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would prevent the spread of communism so we can get

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rid of beat Was financial investment central to de the

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monroe doctrine Actually james monroe was pretty tired of all

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that european investment in latin america So his doctrines orders

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were for europeans to keep their colonies out of american

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land All right what about e The roosevelt corollary with

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roosevelt Corollary was hey me too To the monroe doctrine

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But president roosevelt's me too wasn't about money It was

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about hitting european intervention away with a big old stick

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So if he isn't eager to put money where its

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mouth is on then that means that private investment was

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encouraged in latin america by sea dollar diplomacy in one

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of the more obviously named foreign policy programs dollar diplomacy

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was president Taps attempt to spread us influence in latin

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america through financial investment rather than military intervention So c

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is the right answer Even though dollar diplomacy sounded like

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a noble cause taft ended up using a program to

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continue us in appearance in latin american affairs like when

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he tried and failed to gain control of honduras by

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buying all its dead held by british bankers Don't just

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go ahead and add that one to the intervention bill

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